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Apology of SocratesPlato

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Apology of Socrates

Socrates defends himself before an Athenian jury against charges of impiety and corrupting the young. Plato composes a courtroom speech in which philosophical examination, divine mission, and refusal to flatter the audience put an entire life at stake.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 11,771 words

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CharmidesPlato

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Charmides

Returning from military service, Socrates meets Charmides and Critias and asks what temperance is. Quietness, modesty, doing one’s own work, and self-knowledge are proposed in turn and put to the test.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,134 words

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ClitophonPlato

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Clitophon

Clitophon praises the force of Socrates’ exhortations but faults him for not showing how to practise justice once desire for virtue has awakened. This very short dialogue turns praise into a challenge to Socratic pedagogy’s effectiveness.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; disputed attribution
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 5 passages · 2,472 words

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CratylusPlato

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Cratylus

Hermogenes, Cratylus, and Socrates debate the correctness of names: does it arise from convention or natural fit with things? Proliferating etymologies eventually move inquiry from language toward knowledge of reality.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 58 passages · 24,169 words

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CritiasPlato

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Critias

Critias tells of ancient Athens and Atlantis, an island power whose initial order decays into desire for domination. The narrative continues the Timaeus but breaks off before the announced war and provides no completed conclusion.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 360-347 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 16 passages · 7,257 words

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Crito

Crito urges Socrates to escape before execution. Socrates refuses to decide by fear, money, or majority opinion and asks whether flight would violate justice and the commitments binding him to the laws of Athens.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 12 passages · 5,716 words

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws

The Epinomis returns to the wisdom required by a legislator and directs it toward number, astronomy, and worship of the stars. Transmitted as a sequel to the Laws, it has an ancient but strongly disputed attribution to Plato.

What you will learn

Composition: after 347, c. 347-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 9,251 words

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EuthydemusPlato

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Euthydemus

Socrates recounts an encounter in which Euthydemus and Dionysodorus overwhelm a young man with verbal refutations. The dialogue opposes eristic victory to an educational search for knowledge capable of making life flourish.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 37 passages · 17,127 words

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EuthyphroPlato

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Euthyphro

Outside the court Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is prosecuting his own father in the name of piety. Their exchange tests several definitions of holiness and formulates the famous dilemma between divine will and moral value.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 15 passages · 6,994 words

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First AlcibiadesPlato

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First Alcibiades

Socrates questions the young Alcibiades as he prepares to enter Athenian politics. The dialogue turns political confidence into self-examination: how can one advise a city without knowing justice, common interest, and the self requiring formation?

What you will learn

Composition: c. 350-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 33 passages · 15,272 words

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GorgiasPlato

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Gorgias

Socrates questions Gorgias, Polus, and then Callicles about rhetorical power and the life one should lead. The dialogue opposes persuasion without knowledge, justice, and self-command to an ideal of power released from every limit.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 81 passages · 38,053 words

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Hipparchus, a Pseudo-Platonic DialoguePlato

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Hipparchus, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue

Socrates and an unnamed interlocutor ask what it means to love gain. By arguing that no one truly desires what is judged worthless, the dialogue moves a moral accusation toward the problem of error about goodness.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th-3rd centuries BCE; pseudo-Platonic attribution
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 8 passages · 3,301 words

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Hippias MajorPlato

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Hippias Major

Socrates asks the sophist Hippias not which things are beautiful but what beauty itself is. A young woman, gold, appropriateness, utility, and sensory pleasure each fail to provide a definition without counterexample.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; authenticity disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,859 words

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Hippias MinorPlato

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Hippias Minor

Beginning with Homer’s Achilles and Odysseus, Socrates leads Hippias toward a paradox: the voluntary deceiver seems to possess more knowledge than someone mistaken unwillingly. The conclusion unsettles ordinary categories of fault and competence.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 14 passages · 5,950 words

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Ion

Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode specializing in Homer, about the source of his talent. The exchange opposes a craft grounded in explainable knowledge to inspiration passing through poet, performer, and audience like a magnetic chain.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 13 passages · 5,399 words

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LachesPlato

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Laches

Two fathers consult Nicias and Laches about military education for their sons; Socrates returns the decision to a definition of courage. Endurance, knowledge of dangers, and battlefield conduct are tested without a final answer.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,014 words

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Laws

An Athenian, a Cretan, and a Spartan design institutions for a new city. Without Socrates, the dialogue examines legislation, education, worship, property, family, and punishment, asking how law can form citizens rather than merely constrain them.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 360-347 BCE; late work left unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 327 passages · 148,152 words

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Letters Attributed to PlatoPlato

Fragments or testimony

Letters Attributed to Plato

Letters transmitted under Plato’s name discuss Syracuse, political counsel, friendship, and life around the Academy. Authenticity is debated item by item; the collection should not be read as uniformly secure personal correspondence.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th-3rd centuries BCE; authenticity varies by letter
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 55 passages · 23,675 words